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| Title: Bugaboo Dreams |
| Sub-title: A Story of Skiers, Helicopters & Mountains |
| By (author): Topher Donahue |
| ISBN10-13: 1897522118 : 9781897522110 |
| If you're a connoisseur of the high and wild, just hearing the name Bugaboos is enough to make you feverish with wanderlust. Topher Donahue captures not just the landscape but the people and dreams that shape these otherworldly peaks. --John Flinn, Executive Travel Editor, San Francisco Chronicle Bugaboo Dreams is a marvellously detailed account of the evolution of heli-skiing and -hiking in the Canadian Rockies. More importantly, however, it is the story of the remarkable man behind the business, Hans Gmoser, whose passion and commitment to mountain environments led to a lifetime of bringing others to recreate in these places he loved the most. --Rebecca Martin, Executive Director, Expedition Council, National Geographic Society The stars were aligned to create this remarkable story: a vast mountain wilderness of rock spires and undulating glaciers and a visionary individual who inspired others to help transform his Bugaboo dreams into reality. Topher Donahue has captured the tale in an engaging manner that makes for a great read. --Bernadette McDonald, author and former Director of The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festivals. It was an honour and one of the highlights of my youth to be part of the beginnings of the Bugaboos. Skiing with Hans Gmoser and the wonderful guides who joined him became an indelible experience, not only for the ultimate thrill of skiing in deep powder through the trees and vast open areas of untracked territory, but it also gave me an insight into the true qualities of leadership. Topher Donahue beautifully captures the essence of the experience and the hearts and souls of the pioneers who have made helicopter skiing a passion for so many. --Isadore Issy Sharp, founder, chairman and CEO of Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts and Companion to the Order of the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. Take the snowiest mountains in Canada, add two Austrian immigrants, an army of adrenaline-addicted skiers (kings, queens, billionaires, average people and everyday ski bums) and throw a helicopter into the mix for an unforgettable story of mountain adventure. The tale begins when two childhood friends-Hans Gmoser and Leo Grillmair-leave postwar Austria and travel to Canada in search of adventure. They stumble upon employment taking skiers across the vast glaciers and through the thick forests of Western Canada. When skiers start asking the immigrant mountaineers if it would be possible to use a helicopter to reach the best high-altitude powder, the two find themselves catapulted into a project brimming with more adventure, success, tragedy and fame than they could have dreamed. Complete with archival and contemporary photos, this is the inside story of the people, thrills, accidents and innovations behind the evolution of a sport from a dangerous, ramshackle and lawless enterprise into a multi-million dollar industry offering reliable access to one of the world's most exciting forms of recreation. |
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Pages: 296
Size: 241x168x6mm
Illustrations: colour & b/w photos
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| Published: Rocky Mountain Publishing Company (US) - September 2008 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Biography: general : History of sport : Skiing : Canada |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 1 of: 8 |
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| Title: Denying the Source |
| Sub-title: The Crisis of First Nations Water Rights |
| By (author): Merrell-Ann Phare |
| ISBN10-13: 1897522614 : 9781897522615 |
| First Nations are facing some of the worst water crises in Canada and throughout North America. Their widespread lack of access to safe drinking water receives ongoing national media attention, and yet progress addressing the causes of the problem is painfully slow. First Nations have had little say in how their waters are, or are not, protected. They have been excluded from many important decisions, as provinces operate under the view that they own the water resources within provincial boundaries, and the federal government takes a hands-off approach. The demands for access to waters that First Nations depend upon are intense and growing. Oil and gas, mining, ranching, farming and hydro-development all require enormous quantities of water, and each brings its own set of negative impacts to the rivers, lakes and groundwater sources that are critical to First Nations. Climate change threatens to make matters even worse. Over the last 30 years, the courts have clarified that First Nations have numerous rights to land and resources, including the right to be involved in decision-making. This book is a call to respect the water rights of First Nations, and through this create a new water ethic in Canada and beyond. |
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Pages: 112
Size: 177x114x6mm
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| Published: Rocky Mountain Publishing Company (US) - October 2009 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Environmental management : Conservation of the environment |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Title: 2 of: 8 |
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| Title: Expedition to the Edge |
| Sub-title: Stories of Worldwide Adventure |
| By (author): Lynn Martel |
| ISBN10-13: 1897522096 : 9781897522097 |
| From skilled weekend warriors to internationally recognized stars of the professional adventure game, Lynn Martel has interviewed dozens of the most dynamic, creative and accomplished self-propelled adventurers of our time. In Expedition to the Edge: Stories of Worldwide Adventure, Martel has assembled 59 compelling and entertaining stories that uniquely capture the exploits, the hardships, the fears and the personal insights of a virtual who's who of contemporary adventurers as they explore remote mountain landscapes from the Rockies to Pakistan to Antarctica. Through candid and revealing conversations, Martel captures the joys, the motivations and the revelations of top climbers Sonnie Trotter, Sean Isaac, Raphael Slawinski and Steph Davis; Himalayan alpinists Carlos Buhler, Marko Prezelj and Barry Blanchard; record-setting paraglider Will Gadd; Everest skier Kit Deslauriers; the conservationist duo Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison as they follow a caribou herd for five months on foot across the Yukon; and Colin Angus on his two-year quest to become the first person to circumnavigate the world by human power. |
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Pages: 352
Size: 215x139x6mm
Illustrations: colour photos
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| Published: Rocky Mountain Publishing Company (US) - September 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Extreme sports : Active outdoor pursuits : Travel writing |
| List Price: 23.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 3 of: 8 |
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| Title: Gillean Daffern's Kananaskis Country Trail Guide - 4th Edition |
| Sub-title: Volume 2: West Bragg, The Elbow, The Jumpingpound |
| By (author): Gillean Daffern |
| ISBN10-13: 1897522770 : 9781897522776 |
| With over 100,000 copies of the previous editions sold, Gillean Daffern's bestselling hiking guides to Kananaskis Country have been completely reformatted, revised and updated. As the pre-eminent expert on the area, the author continues to offer something for every level of foot-traveller, be they novice or experienced hikers, scramblers or backpackers. Gillean's clear and detailed text, enhanced with colour photos and maps, enables everyone to navigate safely through this complex and beautiful area. NEW! The previous two volumes have been extended into five exhaustively researched books. NEW! Each new volume includes exciting and previously unpublished trails and routes. NEW! All maps have been completely redrawn and enhanced. NEW! Full-colour photographs throughout do justice to the spectacular scenery of the Canadian Rockies. |
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Pages: 280
Size: 215x139x14mm
Illustrations: colour photos
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| Published: Rocky Mountain Publishing Company (US) - May 2011 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Walking, hiking, trekking : Travel & holiday : Canada : British Columbia |
| List Price: 27.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Reprint under Consideration
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| Title: 4 of: 8 |
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| Title: Restoring the Flow |
| Sub-title: Confronting the World's Water Woes |
| By (author): Robert William Sandford |
| ISBN10-13: 1897522525 : 9781897522523 |
| I believe that it is up to people like us to find the language, create the images and imagine the solutions that will allow us to break out of the vicious circle that threatens public health by threatening our landscapes and water sources . . . Together we can work toward this end. And, we can do it with humour. We can do it with style. And we can do it with grace. Try as we might, parts of North America may not escape the impacts of the global water crisis. The same kinds of water supply and quality issues that have appeared around our crowded planet are already beginning to present themselves here. Unfortunately, this is occurring at a time when, as a direct result of declining global food production, the world is beginning to rely more heavily than ever on agricultural communities in North America to help meet increasingly unattainable food-production goals. Instead of waiting for a water crisis of our own, North Americans may well wish to put the lessons learned elsewhere in the world into active practice. By using the example of others to put our own water-management house in order, North America can possibly avoid the same kinds of problems other countries are facing with respect to the protection of water resources. At the same time, we can employ enlightened attitudes toward the management of water resources to advance many of our own ecological and economic sustainability goals. Passionately conceived, clearly written and citing concrete examples from all over the world, Restoring the Flow is an approachable yet authoritative source, one of the many implements concerned citizens, government officials, businesspeople and policymakers can use and reuse in understanding and addressing this ever-growing global crisis. |
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Pages: 304
Size: 215x139x19mm
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| Published: Rocky Mountain Publishing Company (US) - October 2009 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Environmental management : Conservation of the environment |
| List Price: 25.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 8 |
| Title: 5 of: 8 |
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| Title: The Grizzly Manifesto |
| Sub-title: In Defence of the Great Bear |
| By (author): Jeff Gailus |
| ISBN10-13: 1897522835 : 9781897522837 |
| The grizzly bear, once the archetype for all that is wild, is quickly becoming a symbol of nature's fierce but flagging resilience in the face of human greed and ignorance--and the difficulty a wealth-addicted society has in changing its ways. North America's grizzlies have been under siege ever since Europeans arrived. They'd survived the arrival of spear-wielding humans 13,000 years ago, outlived the short-faced bear, the dire wolf and the sabre-tooth cat--not to mention mastodons, mammoths and giant ground sloths the size of elephants--but grizzly bears in much of Turtle Island succumbed to 375 years of unrelenting commercialization and industrialization, disappearing from the Great Plains and much of the mountain West. Despite their relatively successful recovery in Yellowstone National Park, the bears' decline continues largely unchecked. And the front line in this centuries-old battle for survival has shifted to western Alberta and southern BC, where outdated mythologies, rapacious industry and disingenuous governments continue to push the Great Bear into the mountains and toward a future that may not have room for them at all. |
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Pages: 168
Size: 177x120x15mm
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| Published: Rocky Mountain Publishing Company (US) - May 2010 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Conservation of the environment : Wildlife: mammals |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Title: 6 of: 8 |
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| Title: The Weekender Effect |
| Sub-title: Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns |
| By (author): Robert William Sandford |
| ISBN10-13: 189752210X : 9781897522103 |
| Praise for The Weekender Effect: What happens to paradise when you carve it up into lots and sell it? Bob Sandford writes about it with clarity and a deep love of the places he knows so well. Sandford's story of one town's mutation from a quiet mountain haven to an overcrowded, generic 'outpost of globalization' is essential reading for those who care about community and our last few glorious spaces. --Thomas Wharton, author of Icefields, Salamander and The Logogryph Equal parts manifesto, meditation, and love song to mountain communities everywhere, this calmly passionate book belongs in every house, condo, tent and backpack in the mountain West and on university courses on nature writing, the environment, community, citizenship, sense of place, human geography and many more. This is essential reading for anyone who lives in, lusts after or loves the mountains. --Pamela Banting, President, Association for Literature, the Environment and Culture in Canada As cities continue to grow at unprecedented rates, more and more people are looking for peaceful, weekend retreats in mountain or rural communities. More often than not, these retreats are found in and around resorts or places of natural beauty. As a result, what once were small towns are fast becoming mini cities, complete with expensive housing, fast food, traffic snarls and environmental damage, all with little or no thought for the importance of local history, local people and local culture. The Weekender Effect is a passionate plea for considered development in these bedroom communities and for the necessary preservation of local values, cultures and landscapes. |
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Pages: 128
Size: 177x107x6mm
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| Published: Rocky Mountain Publishing Company (US) - September 2008 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Mountains : Human geography |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 12 |
| Title: 7 of: 8 |
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| Title: Trails of the Southern Cariboo |
| Sub-title: Second Edition |
| By (author): Colin Campbell |
| ISBN10-13: 1897522444 : 9781897522448 |
| Surrounded by the historic remnants of the Gold Rush, with a tiny population and a huge landmass comprising a variety of subregions and topographies, the south-central region of the British Columbia interior's trails have always been famous for great hiking. In this completely revised, updated and full-colour edition of Trails of the Southern Cariboo, residents and tourists alike will learn about and experience both traditional hiking and cross-country ski trails of varying lengths and terrain. The diverse routes in this dynamic region include stunning meadow trails, occasional breathtaking scrambles and numerous longer hikes. This volume is a must-have for outdoor enthusiasts of all levels considering a trip to this area of western Canada. |
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Pages: 144
Size: 215x139x7mm
Illustrations: colour photos & maps
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| Published: Rocky Mountain Publishing Company (US) - May 2009 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Active outdoor pursuits : Walking, hiking, trekking : Travel & holiday : Canada |
| List Price: 10.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 8 of: 8 |
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